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People who say the League Of Villains are right cause me physical pain. This is the same exact situation where people came out of Black Panther saying Kill Monger was right and completely ignored Nakia's existence
#mha#bnha#my hero academia#do you realize#how many completely innocent people theyve murdered#they released everyone from prison#including all the abusers yall hate#including the guy screaming i need women bring me more women#like PLEASE#you can say their message is right#and think they're sympathetic villains#without saying they are in the right#they are not#the majority of them are mentally ill victims that need to be in therapy#not making policy
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As a leftist Jew who believes strongly in the cause of dignity and freedom for the Palestinian people, and that Israel has abused them, I am begging fellow leftists to understand that real life is not a comic book. A government being “the bad guy” in a situation does not automatically make anyone who opposes it “the good guy”.
Hamas denies the Holocaust. Hamas disseminates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—the conspiracy theory it paints is what they mean by “Zionist”. Hamas forbids foreign aid educators from teaching human rights to Palestinians, and claims that even teaching that the Holocaust happened is a war crime. Hamas has written the aim of annihilating Israel (the country and its people) into its charter—the mass slaughter and violent expulsion of 7 million Jews from the land is written into its laws.
There is no crime any state could ever do that would justify any of that; there is no act of state repression that could ever make it acceptable to side with the organization spreading Nazi pamphlets and Holocaust denial.
Oppose Bibi Netanyahu. Oppose Israel’s far-right, authoritarian government. Oppose Likud’s policies. Oppose its violence against Palestinian civilians. That isn’t antisemitic. But Hamas is—verifiably, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to its core—antisemitic. Its portrayal of Israeli Jews as blood-thirsty, child-killing master manipulators that control international media and finance is antisemitic. Its insistence that Palestinian freedom necessitates the death & expulsion of Jews from the land is antisemitic. Its redefinition of “Zionism” as a pejorative to mean genocidal Jewish/Israeli Supremacy is antisemitic.
Supporting the Palestinian people in their plight is a noble and loving goal; please never stop that. But do not let Hamas co-opt that into excusing or denying their rampant antisemitism and war crimes.
#I am terrified every time the Israel-Palestine conflict makes the news here#bc I inevitably see American leftists regurgitate Hamas propaganda with zero critical thought#and that unfortunately includes Jewish Anti-Zionists#Israel#Palestine#israel palestine conflict#jumblr#antisemitism#edit: I removed reference to Israel’s policies as ‘apartheid’ which I’ve increasingly come to see as an inaccurate & unhelpful comparison
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Keep protesting, keep boycotting, and keep talking about Gaza. This headline (from March 27th) would have been unthinkable a few months ago.
#US news#gallup poll#gaza#palestine#we have already seen the political rhetoric begin to shift#and if we keep it up we can make the policy shift
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one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.
one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.
i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.
the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.
my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.
i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.
#writeblr#i was doing a lot with high school students. over and over again#other teachers kept asking me what i was doing differently - why the kids listened to me. i am not particularly foreboding#and i have a pretty firm personal policy of never reacting in anger#godhelpme.#i was always kind of taken aback#because in general the kids were pretty easy. i explained i needed to keep everything “PG-13” because this was my workplace#and it was kind of their workplace#too. besides#i love swearing#and since i couldn't swear#neither could they - so if they were going to say “fuck” or become violent#they needed to choose a really specific time#because we only get “the one”.. sure enough - nobody wanted to waste the one very specific “fuck” utterance. kids listened.#i think just because - that rule makes sense. the kids understand that i don't want to be unfair to them#that censorship is stupid#but that i'm under these rules too so like let's ride it out together#also i look young and tbh between me and u nobody wants to make the nice english teacher cry#the way these kids defended me to their friends was really genuinely so heartwarming bc the Grouchy Frat Boy#would be like MISS RAQUEL DOESN'T DESERVE THAT KIND OF AN ATTITUDE BRO DON'T TALK BACK TO HER
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emotional support frog
who will absolutely eat your hand.
#THIS FROG is a main character now#i dont make the rules#actually i do and you have to follow them#and the new rule is zuko has a badger frog and he doesn’t know what to do with it#he does not WANT the frog#it just wont leave him alone#he did not expect one of his first questions upon joining the gaang to be 'whats your pet policy'#also momo wants the frog now and it is unclear if his intentions are good#so zuko's playing it safe#abd unfortunately looking overprotective of his frog in the process#atla#zuko#also feel free to bug me for individual files#i can add em under the cut#when im not feeling lazy
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Which one will you vote for?
#codacheetah#my art#isat#in stars and time#isat loop#isat siffrin#isat mdp#isat mal du pays#isat act 6 spoilers#two hat spoilers#vaguely. probably more than vaguely actually#isat au#I GUESS#based on a silly silly conversation.... that's my mal du president.....#somehow. not the first time ive drawn loop about to hit siffrin with the steel chair.#loop as presidential candidate is so important to me by the way. they're like a shitty boy king that eats peasants and has never stepped#outside of the castle in terms of their ''policies''.#they want to build a moat around the white house and make babies illegal and give rats legal rights and abolish taxes as a concept#purely because every time they say some inane shit the vein on siffrin's forehead grows a little larger and they have not been dropped#from the ballot list yet.#the people love them and by that i mean their other options are a scary weird ghost (horrifying) or a progressive (abysmal)#like to be clear im not talking about a president of vaugarde thing im talking about THE U S OF A 🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸#none of these people are eligible to run. none of them would ever want to. too bad.#also. i really just wanted to draw loop in a shitty suit tbh it quells my desire to draw loop as saul goodman.#if anyone in the world is reading these tags ill do it if enabled. but im holding back.#anyways though srry to talk about loop so much my scrunkly my scringus my horrible cat the whole basis for these drawings was a convo on md#but im not an mdp understander i am merely an mdp nation citizen#one of the commoners......#i thought about queueing this but you get it now i know this will be a flop post its ok#this scenario appeals almost entirely to me despite having no substance or basis or progression
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if trump does win in the fall, it will not be the fault of people who are against genocide. it will be the fault of biden, his government, and the DNC for holding onto wildly unpopular and horrific policies that are costing them vast swathes of their voterbase.
#chirps#the dems have long since had the problem of people not being excited to vote for them. now they have people#repulsed by the idea of voting for them. due to their policy choices.#DISCLAIMER: i am not telling you what to do with your vote#that's your business. also#it's fucking insane if you're being the dnc's patsy by scolding people in MAY for saying they don't want to vote for biden as the candidate#that he is now. if we can't make real threats then what's the whole fucking point of this whole thing.#also yadda yadda vote in state/local elections regardless#but also. imagine fucking yelling at palistinian-americans for not endorsing the man helping kill their families. LMFAO.#lol. lmao. ha ha ha. ha ha.
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they unionized. its called true love
#spider man: across the spider verse#spider punk#spider noir#hobie brown#noirpunk#the society definitely has hr relationship declaration policies#that these two set on fire#Do Not Separate Them#things will happen such as vandalism and property damage#(those will happen anyway)#they WILL make out for so long they’ll get headrush <3#kissin 9 to 5 with breaks for kicking ass#i spent an unearthly amount of time (two hours) erasing spiders from the foreground lol#cant actually fucking draw kissing so i turned a shitty sketch into a lovely thing that masquerades as finished
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Love learning new things just like the other day someone said that, apparently, in order to lean on Miles' shoulder Gwen had to use extra strength and concentration cuz it's already hard to sit upside down and she made it even more difficult by balancing her weight enough to lean her upper body towards another person and it made me think of how she didn't hold hands with him which was way easier to do in that position but she felt so bad that she rejected him that she said "fuck gravity he needs to know that I care. I already fell for him I might as well fall down too"
#love gwen's policy being like i can't be with you but i just want you to know that you mean the world to me#even if i never say that and if you don't think so you do#honestly this world is so messed up that it's hard to open up even when you want to even when she could in itsv unlike here#she didn't because it wasn't so easy#but i love that she didn't cuz her entire character was making friends again not making boyfriends#and i was happy to see that despite the chemistry and being so adorable they remained friends#and they knew each other for few days it was too quick#and his uncle just died#and peter was right there lol they couldn't kiss in front of him not the first time at least#so they should get married in the end of btsv it's only fair#gwen stacy#miles morales#gwiles#ghostflower#spider man across the spider verse#across the spiderverse#spiderverse
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reminder/tip, particularly for newer pjo fans: do not crosstag!
for those who don't know, crosstagging is tagging irrelevant tags on a post, usually popular tags to try and get more views on the post.
Tumblr doesn't work the same way instagram or tiktok or twitter does. Crosstagging is considered spam, and your blog will be flagged if you do this.
particularly in pjo fandom, crosstagging includes tagging characters that don't actually appear in the post, tagging books or series unrelated to the post (like tagging "TSATS" on a post not specifically about TSATS, or tagging HoO on a post about first series specifically, etc.), tagging "pjo fanfic" or "pjo headcanon" or similar on a post that, obviously, isn't that, and/or tagging irrelevant ships. More recently, this also includes tagging the show (PJO TV, etc) on posts that are completely irrelevant to the show.
This mostly only applies for original posts - Tags you put on reblogs only apply to your own blog's organizational system, and has no bearing on the original post itself. But it's really annoying to the original poster if you spam tags, because it will appear in their notifs. It's pointless to spam tags in reblogs for these reasons regardless, so it's best not to.
just remember: crosstagging is not allowed on tumblr, doesn't work that way here anyways, and is just generally rude. so don't do it.
#pjo#riordanverse#percy jackson#< pretty much the only character tag that's okay to put on most pjo posts#because it's also the series name#though personally for this blog i just use ''riordanverse'' and ''pjo'' and my general main tags#also. don't. crosstag on ao3. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm or anything. it's an *archive.*#crosstagging/tagging just for visibility is against ao3 policies and pointless to begin with#and please do not censor tags on ao3 or tumblr. particularly content warnings#there is no shadowban system on either platform. all it does is make it harder for people who actually need those warnings#and are trying to not see them. because they will not have blocked the exact censoring of that phrase you decided to use
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US politicians enabling hate crimes and war crimes and still acting like they have the moral high grand is mind blowing
#nex benedict#palestine#actively backing up the terrorist state of Israel and sending them all sort of help#the blatant trans phobia in the policies and the behavior demonizing them to the point of encouraging others to murder them#pro life BS and ignoring women's autonomy and everybody else's#still claiming they are actually the good guys#I don't know how us americans tolerate it at this point to change the situation and making it better you guys need a fucking revolution#overthrow the government and everything#I as an outsider see no other solution because let's be honest all of your politicians are corrupt in millions ways you can't change them#trans rights#free palestine
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the more I read about contemporary homophobic laws globally the more it becomes apparent that there is basically a 1:1 direct relationship between whether a country was under historic British rule and how many anti-sodomy laws they currently have on the books. like I knew this in a general sense but not the staggering degree to which this was the case. and I know this probably isn’t really shocking especially given how insanely anti-trans the UK is right now but it’s kind of insane to see just how much homophobia is a comprehensively global export of the British
#also not suggesting that it’s a colonial INVENTION like it’s not that the world was a pro-gay utopia pre-European colonisation#but reading a lot of post-colonial scholarship it’s kind of mind-boggling#also a deeply privileged thing to admit I know. my surprise is mostly the degree to which ‘global homophobia is a colonial artefact’#is like not an exaggerated claim at all basically#One thing that’s frustrating is that a lot of the scholarship I’ve read so far focuses on heterosexuality as the root cause#& not gender. like truly I do not think homophobia as colonial policy makes any sense without gender as the primary distribution mechanism#but anyway. much more reading to do !
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Hozier really said to future generations, it’s not your fault. You can’t “work hard” and get what you need and want. It’s not your fault that the dreams of fifty years are now unrealistic and unattainable without breaking your soul and maybe not even getting it. You were fucked over before you came into this world, and they continue to fuck you over so much that it’s better to live your life as you see fit. It would be easier because being young and living as you want won’t ruin you but abiding by the systems most likely will.
#unreal unearth#Hozier#damage gets done#blamed for a world we had no power in#very heavy on the greed of everyone trying to take their share without considering future generations means future generations get blamed#for the fact that they cannot survive and they can’t make ends meet and we have to beg#while policies continue to make it harder. introduce rent controlled housing. increase minimum wage. make accessibility a priority.#remove the roadblocks. let us choose ‘unsecure futures’ as artists of all kind#p.txt
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the "what-to-do-about-the-ring" chapters, but from the perspective of elronds oath-related trauma
all text from Fellowship of the Ring (council of elrond + the ring goes south), except the snippets of the Oath, which i believe is from the Shibboleth of Feanor
inspired by this post
#silm#silmarillion#lotr#lord of the rings#fellowship#lotr fellowship#comics#elrond#glorfindel#gandalf#boromir#gimli#ill tag everyone with a speaking role i guess#the only thing here i own is the art#hopefully its clear when the person talking switches based on the speech bubble colors#hm im not super happy with some pages but i think the last two turned out really well#btw the greyscale panels are past/future/hypothetical while the color panels are present#so while i was figuring out how to trim a full chapter and then some into a six page comic i realized i cut out the entirety of aragorn#which i guess makes sense since hes obviously more aware of elrond's no oaths policy?#but kind of funny#also i cut saruman to focus on the four parallels theme#fun symbolic details:#i used that one shade of dark red to represent the Oath#in the first panel elrond and erestor (the feanorian kids (i hc erestor is caranthirs son)) are the only ones wearing red#but its also not either of their main colors bc they grew up w the oath but were never actually bound by it#the leaves are redder across the elwing half panel too#on the second page it shows up again in mae's hair and across the silmaril-related half panels#on the third page its in mae's lava; the bodies in menegroth; diors blood; and the figure stabbing him#but also in the belt of the hypothetical ringlord-elrond in a darker shade than it does in normal-elrond#and a ton in the last panel - all the feanorions are either wearing red or have red hair
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one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.
in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.
disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.
desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.
in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?
we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.
except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?
and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.
to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."
this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.
in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.
the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.
and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.
some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.
the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.
we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?
"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.
there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.
#does this make sense#to do be deleted probably yikes#(takes a swing at a wasp's nest)#like i think ppl have started to just be really quiet when they like something 'problematic'#and im like... u can be like -#girl tswift NEEDS to just TAKE A BUS . LIKE?????????????????????#while also being like.#''she's a lot of fun''#if ur personal policy is that u don't support her for that reason that's great#but it's like. eating meat???#like yeah some people won't bc the environment. but the fact i eat meat doesn't mean i hate the earth#like i can say that i think the meat industry is HORRIFIC and also downright cruel to its employees#but like. still enjoy a chicken nugget....#there are people who choose otherwise. it's okay . we are people. i make like no money. u probably don't either#us fighting about whether or not it's Right To Eat The Chicken Tender just distracts from like.#actually turning your ire on the corporation#i hope it's clear what i'm saying here is like. when we fight each other for Purity Reasons#we are just doing the work of corporations . for free. like they WANT us to be doing this lol#it's the fucking DREAM of the upperclass that now ALL forms of responsibility fall on the individual
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while obviously my stance is: if you think bg3 was in any way complex, pillars of eternity will knock your socks off. but also i think pretending pillars is in any way like bg3 (or da for the sake of big fantasy rpgs) is a lie (its better) because it is very different gameplay wise and lore wise and tbh my advice for the first game really is just stick with it. you'll be surprised at how much sticks in your head, and its actually perfectly fine to not pick up on every bit of nuance and worldbuilding on a single playthrough - you're not less of a fan if you find out a piece of lore from someone else. enjoy the game for yourself and if it gels with you, you'll naturally want to replay it and from personal experience pillars 1 becomes next level on a second playthrough when you're more familiar with it.
#idk i feel like maybe i understate how unique pillars feels and like it's ok if you spend a playthrough learning about the world instead of#immediately having deep meta written for it#also its a series that really thrives in the grey areas of making choices and not having obvious good/bad#so its fine actually if you're not aware of every political faction policy when you make a choice#i believe that's intentional#text
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